[dogsbody70]

LOL how technical all this is becoming. I wonder how I have survived all these years without your grammatical know-how? You are getting way too technical for me.

It is many years since I left school-------------There is so much emphasis on teaching grammar for foreign students.

When I see the Cambridge text books for EFL I think they are terribly confusing.

So much nit picking. enjoy yourselves folks correcting this poor old lady.

If you look at the original section--- Yuri had placed the word "IN," inappropriately-- when I saw that, I instantly thought she meant TO or INTO. What is all this nit picking with both words? I went into the shop I went to the shop/s I went to live in Japan I travelled into the interior. I entered the house, I emerged from the house. I went to Brighton, I went into Brighton.

Ah this was the section: ( About trash. I think the ways of collection of garbage are dependENT on the country. You might agree with me that you should observe the local rules when you move in a foreign country. ----yuri put "IN" I changed it to TO-- now I realise my" /" was in the wrong place. So jambo was correct about that after all. (sorry Jambo) I misunderstood-- But I still think TO or INTO are perfectly okay. so here endeth this part of the lesson.


I love this poem by Yeats: Isn't it sublime? wonder if he was criticised for all those "ANDS"




I WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing, 5
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame, 10
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran 15
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands; 20
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.




Have fun don't be glum.